The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 111
As he wished to make what he considered a suitable entry into the King’s palace, he stepped outside the Princess’s little domain, and mounted upon an immense chariot with great solid wheels, and shafts like the trunk of an oak-tree, but all of solid gold.
Who acts: absence · What happens: wish, make, consider, step, mount, shaft · To what, where: suitable entry, palace, little domain, immense chariot
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (absence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 wished | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stepped | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wished | xcomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 considered | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 considered | nsubj |
| 8 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 entry | det |
| 10 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 entry | amod |
| 11 | entry | entry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 considered | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 palace | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 considered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stepped | nsubj |
| 19 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 25 domain | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 22 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 domain | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Princess | case |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 domain | amod |
| 25 | domain | domain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stepped | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mounted | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 mounted | cc |
| 28 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stepped | conj |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 chariot | case |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 chariot | det |
| 31 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 chariot | amod |
| 32 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mounted | obl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 wheels | case |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 wheels | amod |
| 35 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 wheels | amod |
| 36 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 chariot | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 shafts | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 shafts | cc |
| 39 | shafts | shaft | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stepped | parataxis |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 42 trunk | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 trunk | det |
| 42 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shafts | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 tree | case |
| 44 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 tree | det |
| 45 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 tree | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 oak | punct |
| 47 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 trunk | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 all | punct |
| 49 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 50 all | cc |
| 50 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 shafts | conj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 gold | case |
| 52 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 gold | amod |
| 53 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 all | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | absence | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | absence not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | consider | past | absence | a suitable entry | the King's palace | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme entry=Attribute | |||
| 4 | step | past | absence | the Princess's little domain | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside domain=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | mount | participle | absence not said here | a immense chariot with great solid wheels | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon chariot=Destination | ||||
| 6 | shaft | present | like the trunk of a oak tree | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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